Yeah, hill repeats before sprints do strange things to your legs. The top end effort and speed is still there, but the acceleration is not. It's like you have to ramp up more slowly (similar to riding the tandem, as my wife observed this morning when I got home)
When Bob jumped, I jumped too and came up on Peters wheel. I was already standing and I had a head of steam on him. I was about just put my head down to go around and go for it when I hesitated and sat down, thinking I'd ride his wheel and jump with 40m or so to go. But then when he accelerated, I couldn't match it, and he completely rode me off his wheel.
All I ended up doing was blocking Gavin, and probably costing him the sprint. Based on the accelerations I saw out of Gavin in the box sprints this morning, that was probably a good thing for Peter. No wonder he keeps breaking pawls and spokes.
Gavin, come do tolmie repeats with me before hand and get that peak power down a bit. You can even give me the money you would normally be spending on fixing your wheels.
